Putin Calls off Assault on Last Mariupol Holdouts.

[Donald H]

Putin calls off assault on Ukraine's last Mariupol hold out

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called of an assault on the Azovstal plant in Mariupol and ordered its blockade instead

www.rt.com

While at the same time Ukraine makes claim of being able to win the battle for Mariupol.
Are US/Nato weapons about to arrive just in time?
Is Russia calling it off because they can't take Mariupol?

 

[PinktheFloyd88]

Very similar to Hitler calling off the attack on Dunkirk and letting tens of thousands of Brits retreat.

 

[badger2]

Putin calls off assault on Ukraine's last Mariupol hold out

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called of an assault on the Azovstal plant in Mariupol and ordered its blockade instead

www.rt.com

While at the same time Ukraine makes claim of being able to win the battle for Mariupol.
Are US/Nato weapons about to arrive just in time?
Is Russia calling it off because they can't take Mariupol?

You're nuts. Mariupol is finished.

 

[Donald H]

You're nuts. Mariupol is finished.

I don't know and I'm not going to predict.
Some may not agree with you. It will be interesting to see who?

 

[Sunni Man]

There are only about 2,000 remaining Ukrainian insurgents scattered throughout the devastated city of Mariupol.
So the Russian army decided it's not worth risking the lives of soldiers to clear them out, and instead has surrounded the city to starve them into surrender.

 

[1srelluc]

Very similar to Hitler calling off the attack on Dunkirk and letting tens of thousands of Brits retreat.

BS.....There won't be any retreat except maybe by twos and threes. Putin has rendered them hors de combat as far as a effective fighting force and denied the manpower to Kiev.

 

[Sunni Man]

Very similar to Hitler calling off the attack on Dunkirk and letting tens of thousands of Brits retreat.

Hahaha....you are one silly goose. ...

 

[Concerned American]

Hahaha....you are one silly goose. ...

Wet behind the ears.

 

[Pellinore]

The Azovstal steel works looked almost post-apocalyptic *before*. I can't imagine a less appealing battlefield to go root out determined resistance, except maybe an active volcano or complete darkness. It reminds me either of the Tractor Works in Stalingrad, or the Sihang Warehouse in Beijing, for those of you familiar with your World War II. Just the worst.

It looked like this, before the bombing started.

 

[krichton]

There are only about 2,000 remaining Ukrainian insurgents scattered throughout the devastated city of Mariupol.
So the Russian army decided it's not worth risking the lives of soldiers to clear them out, and instead has surrounded the city to starve them into surrender.

Risking the lives of soldiers is the last thing Russia is worried about. They know it's impossible to route out every single soldier from every single building left standing in the city. Worse yet is that they would be attempting to do this with half starved 18 year old conscripts who don't even know why they're even in Ukraine to begin with.

 

[skye]

May be Russia thought it was not necessary to send troops to the so called "catacombs" steel factory, which would result in heavy loses for all sides .....and all that was needed to be done was to seal off the steel factory, because there is not military gain by storming the factory.

We'll see what happens.... hope the Nazi Azov Ukrainians inside the steel plant will surrender

 

[Bleipriester]

May be Russia thought it was not necessary to send troops to the so called "catacombs" steel factory, which would result in heavy loses for all sides .....and all that was needed to be done was to seal off the steel factory, because there is not military gain by storming the factory.

We'll see what happens.... hope the Nazi Azov Ukrainians inside the steel plant will surrender

They fear what would happen to them. But in the end they have no choice. Its surrender to death. Surrender might result in legal charges, though.

 

[skye]

Let Russia military fight in other regions where they are needed.

Like I said .... there is no military gain storming the steel factory.

The Ukrainian Nazis inside should all surrender and go back to their families alive and in one piece.

 

[Ringo]

This is how the occupation of Mariupol began after the referendum on the independence of Donbass, at which the majority of the city's residents voted for self-determination and secession from Ukraine.
May, 2014.